AT-KABUL: At least 34 armed Taliban fighters were killed and eight others were wounded in different crackdowns within past 24 hours.
In a press release issued here, Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with Afghan National Army (ANA) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS) has conducted clearance operations against insurgents in different areas of Nangarhar, Kunar, Ghazni, Jowzjan, Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul, Faryab, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Takhar, Balkh, Parwan, Uruzgan and Herat provinces. In these operations 34 rebels were eliminated and eight others injured.
Police force also recovered huge cache of weapons in the operations, the ministry claimed.